HOME SCHOOL: Visit Inside The Corona Cave Painting - Scooter LaForge in conversation with Rick Herron

moderated by Bernard Welt

As the American city hit hardest by COVID-19 was ordered to shelter in place, artist Scooter LaForge began to transform the walls of his small NYC East Village apartment into a vibrant, multilayered document of time passed, dreams unearthed, desires indulged, and childhood memories retrieved. Join us for a conversation led by independent curator Rick Herron with Scooter about imagining a future, then being in it.

Scooter LaForge

(b. Las Cruces, New Mexico) has lived in the East Village for the past 18 years. His unique style mines the catalog of art history, at times infusing classical themes with a colorful sensibility. LaForge works in various media, including painting, sculpture, and drawing, and employs unorthodox techniques to represent striking iconic images.

LaForge approaches painting intuitively, absorbing what surrounds him and working on the canvas with agility and focus—drawing from a fertile inner emotional realm and an extensive painterly vocabulary. LaForge’s paintings have been shown at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York, the Friedrichshof Museum in Vienna, and the Spritmuseum/Absolut Art Collection in Sweden. Howl! Happening, Empirical Nonsense, and Gallery 1969 are among the venues in New York that have recently shown his work. In 2015, the artist was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He holds a BFA in painting from the University of Arizona.
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Rick Herron

is an independent curator and artist in Los Angeles. Recent projects include Other Monuments with Rashawn Griffin in Plattsburg, MO, Spring Break Art Show in NYC, and Mentors at CFHILL and Powerful Babies: Keith Haring's Impact On Artists Today, both in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2013, he was the curatorial fellow for Queer Art Mentorship and he has worked with Visual AIDS, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, and New Museum. Rick received his BA in Art History from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and in 2019, he earned his MA in Curatorial Practice at the University of Bergen, Norway.